[R] tables package and alternative to col percent

[Daniel Cher]

Thanks for the reply. Another great option would be "missing" (like in SAS),
especially for factors.  I'm struggling to figure out how to do this with
"tables".

Daniel Cher, MD
djcher at gmail.com
+1-650-269-5763

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-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 2:13 AM
To: Daniel Cher; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] tables package and alternative to col percent

On 14-01-13 12:02 AM, Daniel Cher wrote:
> Library "tables" and tabular function is neato.
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> I'm trying to figure out how to get percents other than just row and 
> columns. I'd like a percent of a factor.

That's a recent addition, still only on R-forge.
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> library(tables)
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> c=data.frame(
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>        gender=c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2),
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>        race=c(3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4)
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> tabular(
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>        Factor(gender,"Gender") *
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>        Factor(race, "Race") + 1 ~
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>        (n=1) + Percent("col"),
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>        data=c
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> )
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> The above produces:
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> Gender Race n Percent
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> 1      3    2  25
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>          4    2  25
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>   2      3    0   0
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>          4    4  50
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>          All  8 100
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> I'm looking for percents to have gender=1 or gender=2 as the denominator.
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You would get the table below using

Percent(denom = Equal(Gender))

Duncan Murdoch

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> Gender Race n Percent
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> 1      3    2  *50*
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>          4    2  *50*
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>   2      3    0   *0*
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>          4    4  *100*
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>          All  8 100
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> Daniel Cher, MD
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>   <mailto:djcher at gmail.com> djcher at gmail.com
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> +1-650-269-5763
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